Under aircraft, does your demo have the DHC-2 Beaver or the Robinson helicopter? The helicopter = demo #2.

Has anyone tried this new tip in populated cities or detailed airports? Cause im still getting poor framerates

i fly mostly around Long Island, New York and Manhatten area and i havent noticed much difference if any on my system either.I think everyone who's trying to "tweak" should do it flying around this area in different conditions...this is one of the hard hit areas and always has been...it should be used for benchmarking IMO.Dave

>Has anyone tried this new tip in populated cities or detailed>airports? Cause im still getting poor frameratesWell I have been experimenting, and I can tell you, that the detailed airports in FSX do drag down perf a lot. I think that means the texture sizes are quite large for the 3D buildings.So that means something can be done in this regard, possibly, too. I am not yet sure if that is the global scenery detail slider, or if that means the textures themselves will need some tweaking.But outside of those areas with lots of 3D objects, Matt Fox's autogen tweak has really improved things a lot. Try going from 15 fps with dense autogen to 25 fps. It's much much better.RhettAMD 3700+, eVGA 7800GT 256, ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2 GB Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8, etc. etc.

Well, I am the second one that can report no noticeable improvement in FPS. Go figure.Pretty difficult to save the file to the wrong location. . .hmmm. . .

>i fly mostly around Long Island, New York and Manhatten area>and i havent noticed much difference if any on my system>either.>>I think everyone who's trying to "tweak" should do it flying>around this area in different conditions...this is one of the>hard hit areas and always has been...it should be used for>benchmarking IMO.>>DaveIt will probably not have as much of an impact in urban areas since there aren't as many forests and possibly MS used less complex tree definitions in urban areas to begin with.Matt

As far as the urban areas go, I'm looking at reducing the size of some of the autogen buidling textures. There are a ton of textures for buildings - I'm just trying to figure out which ones would be the best to start with. I think I might get to this later tonight. May post something then or tomorrow.If that yields results, I'll look at some of the airport textures to see if reducing them helps framerates when flying near airports. One candidate I am highly suspicious of is autogen vehicles and AI aircraft. When I pan to look at a parked plane or ground equipment at an airport, my framerate really tanks.You could also see my other two threads with reduced cloud textures and reduced tree textures. See:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...d=355651&page=6andhttp://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...d=355657&page=6I have found these help framerates and can run in conjunction with Matt's fix.Mike Kelly

What happened to the second version of the fix? When I click on the link, it tells me it no longer exists.Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180

>Can some of you please try the file attached to this post and>let me know how it compares to the original one I posted last>night. This should give ALOT more variety than the one I>posted last night, but is still be much much less than the FSX>default.>>>Thanks.>>Matt Fox Is it normal this second attachment is not downloading? The site claims it is missing. Does somebody have it and can upload it say through rapidshare.de? Thank you, I'm dying to get my fps up a little... (and praying the dev team gets some dual core patch because having a cpu sitting idle isn't fun!) EDIT: APOLOGIES! Camino on macosx seems to have the webpage show that message but the download actually went through and I didn't notice. I got the file, I'm going to try it, thank you!

Not sure what happened. Here it is again.Matt

Thanks!Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180

It would be greatly apreciated if u can do something about those building textures specially of the detailed aiports. Thanks for the wonderfull work.

I cant download the file, why?

Hi,It's still there; I can download it fine. Maybe you have to be logged in to the forum, or perhaps the AVSIM File Library???Hope this helps,--Tom GibsonCal Classic Propliner Page: http://www.calclassic.comFreeflight Design Shop: http://www.freeflightdesign.comDrop by! ___x_x_(")_x_x___

This is what it did for me....Great work Matt!!http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...sg_id=311&page=